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ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. IMOS
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 35% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen. No fair value estimate for now: a capital-spending surge is squeezing its free cash flow.
Worth knowing
- Down 36% from its 52-week high while revenue grew 10%
From the data on this page, as of the last close. How we pick these
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- —
- Off 52-wk high
- −35%
- Risk vs market
- Highbeta 2.25
52-week range 53% of the way from its 52-week low to its high
Price $53.94
3 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
Estimate unreliable for IMOS: free cash flow is squeezed by a capital-spending surge (capex is 96% of operating cash flow over the last 12 months, vs 55% in FY2022), so a DCF on today's free cash flow would understate the business. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much IMOS moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Swings much more than the market, and its own price swings are 6.3× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 2.25
- Volatility
- 81% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.36
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.44
How it ranks
Where IMOS stands vs every one of the 2,467 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Not in the top quarter on any of these 4 measures
- Free cash flow yield0.2% · free cash flow vs market capLowest 21%of 1,690
- Dividends + buybacks yield1.5% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capLowest 37%of 2,227
- Revenue growth, last 12 months+10% · vs the 12 months beforeTop 47%of 2,184
- Operating margin4.8% · of sales kept as operating profitLowest 29%of 1,549
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 3 of 5
GrowthSales grew 10% to $763M over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
ValuationPrice / book of 2.5×, below the 5.0× median for the 312 Technology companies we cover.
Cash returnsDividend yield of 1.5%, above the 1.1% median for the 105 Technology companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationP/E of 108.2× vs a 33.2× median for the 254 Technology companies we cover.
Cash returnsFree cash flow fell 82% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield is just 0.2%.
ProfitabilityGross margin narrowed to 10.8% in FY2025 from 16.6% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: no positive free cash flow.
All fundamentals
P/E 108.2 · FCF yield 0.2% · ROE 2%
Valuation
- P/E
- 108.2×Technology median 33.2×
- Price / FCF
- n/an/m: free cash flow near zero
- FCF yield
- 0.2%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 2.49×
- Price / book
- 2.48×
- Market cap
- $1.9Blisted
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $763M
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +10.2%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −0.1%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- EPS growth, last FY
- n/afewer than two years of diluted EPS
- Net income, 12 months
- $18M
- Net income growth
- −60%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 10.8%
- Operating margin
- 4.8%
- Net margin
- 2.3%
- FCF margin
- 0.6%
- Return on equity
- 2%
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $474M
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/acash or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- 3.8×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $5M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- −82%
- Dividend yield
- 1.46%$28M paid
- Payout ratio
- 158%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- n/ano quarterly diluted share count
- Stock-based comp
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Trailing 12 months to Dec 31, 2025; balance sheet at Dec 31, 2025. From ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC.’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $-0.8B · Sales +29%
- Free cash flow, 12 months−$0.8B
- Free-cash-flow yield0.2%
- Free-cash-flow margin−3%
- Gross margin15%
- Operating margin13%
- Return on invested capital66%
- Return on equity9%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+29%
- Net debt / EBITDA0.5×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $53.94
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$21.09−60.9%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$53.94you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$83.30+54.4%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 37 · 5 days −6.2%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Next report
Nov 10
- DateTue Nov 10
- Year-ago EPS$0.33
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
IMOS is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 5:14 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Semiconductors
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.